Published on 12, July, 2020
What "autistic" things do you find yourselves doing? I do a lot of different things which I know a neurotypical wouldn't think twice about.
One of them is making sure everything in my house is straight, so the chairs, my books and DVDs on the shelf, pictures hanging on the wall and plenty more than that.
Recently I was doing up an MG Maestro and had noticed the offside headlight wasn't seated properly and was facing a little to the side. This bothered me so much, playing at the back of my mind until finally I went out and straightened it because I couldn't cope with it not being right.
I feel like I was actually approaching a meltdown, that's how much this sort of thing bothers me.
Am I alone in being this way?
I organise my vinyl collection which takes a good hour and then I do it all over again because I love organising things.
And if I'm out I'll just suddenly stop if I notice something that takes my interest, like a different flower amongst loads of flowers that are all the same.
During my assessment I saw a rainbow out the window and stood up and went "Wooow look at that!"
This is a very autistic thing to do I found out from others at autism groups last year.